Sharer attachment for rounding wooden poles



(No Model.)

M. S. ONEIL.

. SHAPERATTAGHMENT FOR ROUNDI'NG woonmrows... No. 265,527. Patented Dec. 5, 1882..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL S. ONEIL, OF ROOK ISLAND, ILLINOIS.

S HAPER ATTACHMENT FOR ROUNDING WOODEN POLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,527, dated December 5,1882,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL S. 0NEIL,a citizen of the United States, residing at Rock Island,in the county ofRock Island and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shaper Attachments for Rounding Wooden Poles; and I do declare the f'ollowingto be afull, clear, and exact descripwhich form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to shapers for rounding up wagon, sulky,and cultivator poles and all other kinds of straight timber. Such poles and timber are now shaped or rounded by. means of a form of hard wood, the shape and length of the stick to be rounded rabbeted out on the upper and outside 'corner of the form as far as it is desired to round the pole. This method calls for the attendance and services of two operatives in rounding each pole.

The object of the, present invention is to abolish the hard-wood form altogether and to replace it by an attachment to the shaper which requires but one operative.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters refer to like parts, Figure 1 is a side perspective view of my attachment with all its parts, and Fig. 2 a similar view taken from the opposite side.

Ais a metal casting or thin slab of hard wood, which is bolted to the table of an ordinary pole-shaping machine by bolts passing through the eye a and the slot a, the slot permitting the attachment to be adjusted nearer to or fartherfrom the cutter-head of the shaper, as desired. This cutter-head revolves in the semicircular space marked 13. Gages C O,

with slot-pieces c c and slides c c, are made adjustable by means of bolts and nuts 0 c Rollers D D, with arms at d, axles d d, and washers d (1 are made adjustable up and down by'bolts or screws 61 d operating in short Application filed July 20, 1882. (No model.)

standards d d. Bearing-springs E E are made adjustable by bolts and nuts or screws 0 0 working in the flanges e e.

To operate the attachment, adjust the eye a and slota upon the shaper-table, so'as to bring the cutter-head as far as necessary into the semicircular space B. Then adjust the gages G O and the beariugsprings E E with reference to the width of the pole to be rounded. Then adjust the rollers D D with reference to the thickness of the pole to be rounded. Then insert the pole or stick of timber between the arms of the roller D, which is over the larger of the two gages O, and push it along as far ,as the side needs to be rounded. The rollers D D will hold it down to the bed or floor of the attachment, the bearing-springs E E will hold it firmly against the cutter-head, Which planes and rounds it, and the gages O 0 will keep it in line while operated upon by the cutter. When pushed and rounded as far along its length as necessary, let the operator A pole-shavingmachine with bed plate having adjustable gages, as G, on the side of the bed toward the cutter-head, spring-arms,as E, on the side opposite the cutter-head, to hold work against the cutter-head, and bearing rolls, as D, borne on adjustable arms above the bed-plate, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL S. ONEIL. Witnesses:

RUSSELL H. CURTIS, M. EDWARD SWEENEY. 

